Genetic Models of Disease Laboratory

July 30, 2012

What We Do

Research in this laboratory uses the model organism C. elegans (a roundworm) to address complex molecular and cell biological questions that are often impossible to investigate directly using human cell lines or mammalian animal models. Rather than being focused on a single disease, the laboratory relies on a common way of thinking about biological problems and an interest in using model organisms as a way to understand human biology.